Global Citizenship

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Central Asian law students convene for inaugural legal ethics training
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Safeguarding the future
Our lawyers help protect vulnerable children in Europe
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Building an ethical framework
Conference proposes to incorporate legal ethics into African law school education
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Leveling the playing field
Improving education standards for New Hampshire public school students
Closeup of architectural details on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Righting a wrong
Securing a US$9.45 million settlement for a client wrongfully imprisoned for more than 20 years
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Unshackling debt
The Firm’s class-action lawsuit stops unconstitutional jailings of indigent people in Ferguson, Missouri
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Bracing for the storm
Helping Kenya prepare for natural disaster-driven conflict
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Singapore Management University wins Jessup World Championship in year marked by record participation
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The 66th Jessup sees record participation around the world
White & Case sponsors 18 national and regional competitions
Image from a camera half-submerged in the tropical waters of Lissenung Island, Papua New Guinea. Under water, dense and varied green coral is visible. Above water, an island and a person paddling a traditional outrigger canoe are silhouetted against a vibrant orange sunset.
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Swapping debt for nature
The Firm's latest debt-for-nature swap was among the first to tap into a newly reauthorized US law
A nighttime view of the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera) in Vienna, Austria. The Neo-Renaissance building is warmly lit, inside and out. Light from traffic appears as red and white streaks in the left foreground.
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Training the next generation of international lawyers
The Firm expanded its Vis Moot training to students in Central Asia and Eastern Europe
A distant view of the Supreme Court of Zambia, in the country's capital of Lusaka. The red-brick, two-story building features white columns along the main facade and a pair of white lion sculptures enclosing the wide entrance steps. A large palm tree stands to the left, and three flagpoles to the right.
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Trailblazing jurist Florence Mumba receives White & Case Distinguished Jessup Alumni Award
The competition opens doors and shapes careers for many law students around the world
A view of the portico of the New York County Supreme Court, in lower Manhattan in New York City. Above its columns, the portico is engraved with the motto, "The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government." Sun shines on the top left corner.
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A model partnership
Amazon and White & Case raise the bar on pro bono collaborations with four projects in 2023 
A community nurse, left, shares information on a clipboard with three teenage girls, right. The group stands by a wooden fence in front of a shack in an informal settlement in Africa.
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An impactful bond
Structuring a Development Impact Bond that enhances reproductive health services for girls in Kenya
A female volunteer, right, and Ukrainian refugee woman, left, sit on steps in a train station, both looking at a document the volunteer is holding and explaining
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Pro bono in wartime
Firm provides humanitarian and legal aid to Ukraine
A group of five multi-generational family members, three male, two female, embrace in a backyard with their backs to the camera.
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A force for good
Multipronged effort helps individuals disproportionately affected by our criminal justice system and addresses racial injustice
A silhouetted view of five children playing outside a hot air balloon decorated in squares of red, yellow, orange, blue and black
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Elevate: investing in the next generation
Our new Responsible Business campaign concentrates the Firm's volunteering and charitable giving efforts on investing in youth through education, empowerment and employability
Two teenage girls facing each other raise their fists against a late-afternoon blue sky. One girl, left, looks up, while the other, right, looks into the distance. The wind blows their hair.
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Ending child marriage in the United States
Momentum continues to build as we helped change laws in three more states, bringing the total to ten states
Two pairs of hands, one left, one right, wash leafy greens in a red bucket, under a stream of water from a water gravity system in a village in northern Sierra Leone. The water is drawn from a local mountain.
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Clean water, effective sanitation
Our legal research for Human Right 2 Water helps push essential needs toward becoming legally protected human rights
Lawyers in traditional black gowns and light-colored wigs walk up a winding concrete ramp as they arrive at the Supreme Court of Kenya, in Nairobi, to be admitted to the Bar in November 2023. Some are also wearing sunglasses.
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Dispute alternatives
Training programs help Nairobi's push to become a preferred venue for dispute resolution
A close-up view of 28 colorfully decorated flags that form the art installation "United Neytions," which hangs in Sydney Airport. Each flag represents one of the original Aboriginal nations and is decorated in varying combinations of stripes, dots, spirals, diamonds and stars, in a color palette of orange, green, black, red, yellow and white. The work is by artist Archie Moore, a member of Australia's Kamilaroi Indigenous nation.
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Reconciling differences
White & Case teams up with Jawun to support Australia's Indigenous communities
building columns
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Unveiling the Future: Malawi's Commitment to Commercial Arbitration Excellence
UN-REDD Carbon
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Firm’s pro bono initiative a catalyst for UN-REDD Carbon Rights report launch
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Jessup Sees Record Number of Participating Teams in 2024
Unity
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White & Case Secures Pro Bono Victory for Students in New Hampshire School Funding Lawsuit
Award
Latin Lawyer recognizes White & Case Mexico City office as a Pro Bono Leading Light
vance center pardons
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The problem with pardons
Providing access to executive clemency for women and other vulnerable groups
Ukraine response
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Call to action
Responding to those affected by the war in Ukraine
Australia floods
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In the wake of the storm
Rebuilding houses and lives following the Australia floods
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Safe passage
Helping refugees fleeing from Afghanistan
Navigating the difference between ESG and pro bono
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Navigating the difference between ESG and pro bono
A conversation with Jacquelyn MacLennan, EU competition and trade law partner, Global Pro Bono Practice Leader (2015 – 2022) and Business & Human Rights Interest Group member
justice
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Isolated for life
Protecting prisoners from the harms of long-term solitary confinement 
Carbon rights
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Carbon rights
Identifying legal frameworks for developing countries to address climate change
A holistic approach juvenile defense
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A holistic approach
Improving access to justice for children
office highlights
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Office highlights
Pro bono matters from each of our offices
Call of the wild gray wolf
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Call of the wild
Free speech victory benefits endangered gray wolves
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Pro bono secondments
Deepening client relationships and boosting associates' skills 
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rights roe v wade
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Reproductive freedoms
Building on our long history of reproductive rights pro bono work
Africa green bonds
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A sustainable bond
Facilitating green and blue bonds in Africa